FILE - This Feb. 4, 2014 file photo shows a small memorial to Jordan Davis planted outside the courthouse in Jacksonville, Fla. After more than 30 hours of jury deliberations over four days, a mistrial was declared on the murder charge that Michael Dunn faced in the fatal shooting Davis, Saturday, Feb. 15. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bob Mack, File)

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"You can get killed just for living in your American skin." - Bruce Springsteen

On Aug. 7, 1930, two young black men were lynched in Marion, Ind.

A photographer named Lawrence Beitler had a studio across the street from the lynching tree. He came out and snapped what became an iconic photo, which he made into a postcard and sold. It shows Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith hanging dead and their executioners, faces clearly visible, milling about as if at a picnic. Though authorities possessed this damning photographic evidence, they never arrested anyone for the crime. It was officially attributed ...